Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-04-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Game is increasing in Yellowstone
Park from all accounts.
st. Louis follows Chicago in adopt
ing lower theatrical admission rates.
1t is figured that strikes and LOCK-
outs cost the land So, 900, 900 in 1886.
Immigrants arrived IN the United
States last year at the rate Of 1,0O a
/ day.
The Queen of Greece takes her air
ings in carriage for which she has paid
5000.
"A fire in u Poughkeepsie, n. Y,
ice house night or two ago, melted
%, 600 tons of ice.
4 Washington lady has presented
Mrs. Cleveland with little marmoset,a a
small species of monkey. eight inches
long.
Japanese orange trees are being
introduced into California. They will
give a new and excellent variety OF
fruit.
The cost of an ordinary glass OF
pure whisky, including the present
tax, is said to be one and three-tenths
cents.
Three young italian women are
about to start literary review in
Rome. Its object Will be largely to
direct attention to women'S work.
An almost naked insane man was
found by hunter IN the woods of
North Carolina. He had been craZed
by the earthquakes IN August last.
The numerous admirers of Mon
tana great man recently gave hun 4
recherche dinner. Itconsisted of three
courses-boiled cabbage, prairie dog
and whiskey.
"A large manufacture of paper
bottles IS to be entered into, patents
having been secured in all probable
fields OF competition. 1t is al Ameri-
can invention,
An English mastiff stopped a run
away in Wisconsin a few days ago.
He attempted to seize the bride but
failing, caught the reins and held on
until the horse stopped.
During 1856 ten vessels bound to
or from Philadelphia and owned there,
with crews numbering 127 and nearly
81, 900, 600 worth Of property, were lost
at sea and never heard from.
Last year eight peaks of the Alps,
hitherto inaccessible, were Sscended by
adventurous parties, but eleven persons
lost their lives in climbing, ten being
killed and one froZe to death.
| Three residents of Undertook.
n. Y, say they met the ghost of a de-
ceased neighbor on lonely road nelr
that village one nigh. recently and had
a long and entertaining chat with it.
In the lower Brule agency in
/ Dakota the Indians have a church
and four chapels. One hundred Of
their number are members of the
church, IN which they take great pride.
While Captain Cameron, of Port
land, Oregon, was walking on a dock
/ recently smoking, a ball from some
| unknown rifeman struck his pipe,
| carrying 1t all away except a little bit
between his teeth.
"A mass Of petrifed teredos iship-
.wOrmsl s reported to hare been found
Embedded in sandstone, thirty feet
from the facing, by workmen who were
quarrying filling for the Columbia and
Puget Sound Railroad.
"A wind storm not long ago blew
over a large strawstack on the farm of
John Strawn, near Orleans, Illinois,
and buried under it a steer. After
thirteen days, other cattle having eaten
the fallen straw, the steer walked out.
. Professor Collett, a well-knOwn
Norwegian Zoologist, announces lat
the beaver is now extinct in Northern
Norway, hut estimates that ah1nf 100
are still in existence in the South,
chiefly in the Province Of Nedenaes.
Lady Brassey, the narrator of the
voyage of the Sunbeam, has an apart
ment whose prevailing decoration is
the monkey, which is depicted on
walls, carpets and ceiling, and whose
figure is utilized IN every sort of de-
sign.
-BIDEL, the Paris lion tanner, who
was rather roughly handled by his pet
lion q month or two ago, has been
compelled to retire from service alto
gether, owing to an attack of facial
paralysis. His part is now taken by
one of his pupils.
"A waiter in San Luis Obispo
(Cal. hotel the other day waited on a
table where there were number OF
gentlemen speaking five different
tongues-English, French, Italian.
Spanish and German-and he spoke to
each in his native language, talking to
any of them luently.
Chinese weaveTs in ancient times
cotton stuff called sar-
asa, woven sometimes in minute.
sometimes in bold designs, the colors
OF which, partly from their original
excellence and partly from the mellow
ing effects of age, are simply incompar-
abe. For little strip Of this celebra-
ted material large enough to pass round.
her neck and form hanyeri, Japan-
eSe belle has been known to pay any
thing from 500 to $1,000.
"A stage almanac for the year
lISl, now brought to light apropcs of .
the recent jubilee of the Royal Theatre
of Berlin, shows that a hundred years
ago the Berlin '1talian Opera" boasted
OF exactly two female singers, q male
singer reinforcing them III operas
which called for 4 third female role.
The portion OF the almanac devoted to
the drama also shows some comic feat
ures. Thus Nine. Mecour is entered
as representative of Mothers, First
Soubrettes and Affected Characters.
Herr Reinwald as playing Comic
Servants, Innkeepers and
Singing Pedants."
Berlin is suffering from lack of
small lodgings, says the BGUgs,cerks-
Ieit,ng, contending that the fact 4
there being only 1000 vacant lodgings
in a city Of round !, 100000 IDhabi-
tants is tantamount to a lack OF
lodgings. According to that paper, the
demand can only be satisfied by the
of from 600 to 700 large
houses, which, at an average Of 20
occupants, can accommodate 1900
persons, while the population of Berlin
has increased last year by far more than
&c, 0,OO0. On the 1St of October, 1878,
when Berlin counted only 1,000,OOO
there were about 22,OOO
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